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{{Officeholder
|name=James M. Wayne
|image=
|party=Jacksonian [[Democrat]]
|spouse=
|religion=[[Protestant]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=(Associate or Chief)
|nominator=[[Andrew Jackson]]
|terms=January 9, 1835 – July 5, 1867
|preceded=[[William Johnson]]
|former=y
|succeeded=(none)
}}
{{Officeholder/representative
|state=Georgia
|district=At-large
|terms=1828-1835
|preceded=(none)
|former=y
|succeeded=Jabez Y. Jackson
}}
{{Officeholder/mayor
|number=16th
|city=Savannah, Georgia
|terms=1817-1819
|preceded=Thomas Charlton
|former=y
|succeeded=Thomas Charlton
}}
|military=y
|branch=[[US Army]]
|battles=[[War of 1812]]
}}
'''James Moore Wayne''' was an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. He also served as mayor of Savannah, [[Georgia]] and in the [[House of Representatives]] for Georgia's at-large district. On the Court, he voted with the majority in [[Dred Scott v. Sanford]], but generally ruled in favor of government power under the [[Commerce Clause]] and did support the Union during the [[Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/11250/Wayne-James-Moore.html|format=HTML|language=English|title=James M. Wayne|work=law.jrank}}</ref>
==References==
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